Grottoes Area Home Burns

Residents Of Converted Schoolhouse ‘Lost Everything’ In Blaze

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Posted: February 8, 2013

By PETE DeLEA

Smoke drifts skyward Thursday morning from a home on East Side Highway, south of Grottoes, that was destroyed by fire overnight. The home was converted from a former brick schoolhouse. (Photos by Nikki Fox / DN-R)

Little remains of a home south of Grottoes that burned early Thursday. Originally a schoolhouse, the home was a total loss. No one was injured in the blaze.

GROTTOES — Wanda Morris fought back tears Thursday morning as she peered at her mother’s home, an old 16-room converted brick schoolhouse from which smoke billowed following an early morning blaze.…